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Regarding Feng Yong's revision of the navy's shipbuilding plan, the top level of the National Defense Force was very puzzled. Feng Yong, who has always been strong militarily, would personally reduce the military budget, which has never been done before the establishment of the National Defense Force. Regarding the shipbuilding plan proposed by the Admiralty, Jiang Baili and Cai Ye also agreed. Although both of them came from the army, the Wehrmacht is no longer a small local force that can only dominate on land, and the current Wehrmacht has more than 3 million people, including many advanced arms of the military, and its strength is getting stronger and stronger. The Wehrmacht can confidently say that on land, the Wehrmacht is not afraid of any challenge. But in addition to being a land power, China also has a long coastline and vast seas. There are more enemies to face at sea. In this case, China needs a world-class naval fleet to protect the country. Although China's navy has developed by leaps and bounds, and in just two years, it has battleships that advanced countries may not have, but after all, the development time is limited, and the navy cannot be compared with those old naval powers in terms of scale and combat effectiveness. The Far East is not calm now, and the Japanese Navy dominates the western part of the Pacific Ocean. The Russian Pacific Fleet also has a share of the pie at sea, and now that the world war is over, the forces of the European powers have begun to return to the Far East one after another, making the situation in the Far East more and more tense.

The rise of new powers will inevitably be accompanied by a redistribution of interests, especially for a regional superpower like China. In the Far East, the interests of Western countries are quite numerous. If China had not seized the opportunity, I am afraid that it would have been difficult to have a strong China at all. The Wehrmacht appeared so suddenly that no country paid much attention to it, and it swept the whole country in a short time. To the surprise of Western countries, Japan, the only power in the Far East, lost to China in a land confrontation because of its relatively backward army armaments, thus enabling China to develop rapidly in a relatively peaceful environment. At home, the war in the West has put the state-owned enterprises that have sprung up in the northeast on the fast train of rapid development. In just two years, the state-owned enterprises in Northeast China, under the leadership of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce, have become an unusually powerful large consortium. As a result, the newly established Beijing government was also relatively financially well-off. This is also an important reason why Feng Yong can lead China to make great strides.

The West, which has just ended its war, is redistributing its interests, and the Paris Peace Conference, despite its scandalous appearances, has greatly disappointed the world's democrats. But despite these people's opposition, the Paris Peace Conference continued to move forward according to the original version of the world. The triumvirate of Britain, France, and the United States manipulated the Paris Peace Conference and usurped a large amount of interests, and other small Western countries that suffered huge losses in the war were also able to drink some leftover water with the help of incense. The most marginal belligerent countries like China can only watch with their eyes. Where is the ability to obtain benefits without compensation. But China was the one that gained the most from the Paris Peace Conference. Because of the strong hegemony of Britain, France and the United States at the Paris Peace Conference, it aroused the dissatisfaction of small Western countries. These countries instinctively want to unite in everything to ensure their own interests, and China has taken the opportunity to get along with these countries and establish diplomatic relations one after another. Chinese Foreign Minister Shi Yuewang has been moving around Western countries during this time. With its sharp eloquence and superb diplomatic skills, China has won a lot of favor from these Western heads of state. At the same time, Shi Yuewang also threw a lot of money like a fortune boy, bought the industrial equipment and technical data that the victorious countries forcibly plundered from the defeated countries, and then shipped them to Asia in batches.

The great appetite of the Chinese aroused the vigilance of the Japanese. Japan's foreign minister has also continued to act to promote the theory of the China threat everywhere. However, this era is not the original 21 st century, and Japan is not the world hegemon, where can it influence the decisions of Western countries. In addition, Britain, France and the United States are also happy to see the two high-grade powers in the Far East fight. For Britain, France and the United States, it would be best if a world war also broke out in the Far East, so that they could use the war in the Far East to get rid of the economy that had almost collapsed at home because of the war. ..., in this delicate relationship, China's diplomatic actions are simply like a fish in water. The original intention of this acquiescence of the West was to first support China, so that China and the Middle Ages had the ability to compete with Japan, and then beat the relationship between the two countries, and it was better to let it break out into war, so that the two worlds could weaken at the same time, so that the Western colonial system could continue to exist in the Far East and obtain greater benefits. But they could not have imagined that today's acquiescence would breed a superpower that would make the world tremble in just a few decades.

In the Western docks, there are merchant ships heading to China everywhere, and what is even more surprising is that in the Western world, a large number of large caravans sailing under the Chinese flag have appeared, and the most striking thing is that there are two Chinese Navy cruisers escorting the fleet. This phenomenon has also caused a small wave in the Western world. It's just that it didn't attract the attention of the world's top leaders.

They already knew about the launch of the Chinese battleships, and they also knew the fact that China and Spain cooperated in production, which made the local government pay a lot of attention to Spain, a declining naval power, and objectively admit that the Chinese navy already has some strength, plus the world war has just ended, people are at ease, and the Western world will not provoke disputes for no reason for China. And with the Chinese Navy going to sea to escort ships, Chinese merchant ships can finally fly the golden dragon flag in a dignified manner. The battleship gave confidence not only to the Chinese Navy, but also to Chinese businessmen.

In the past six months, a large number of merchant ships have sent Western industrial equipment to China. Under the government's planning, industrial zones will be established in major coastal cities. In just half a year, the level of industrialization in coastal cities has almost suddenly moved from backwardness to development. Coupled with the arrival of a large number of advanced talents in the West, these industrial equipment have been maximized.

The Chinese government assessed the situation, the central government allocated a large amount of wealth, embarked on more than a dozen major projects, and at Feng Yong's request, the Chinese government began to formulate a five-year plan. Although a planned economy is unnecessary, this kind of short-term planning can concentrate the country's forces in the right direction. In addition to the current economic system of the Chinese government, it is possible to concentrate financial resources on the development of large projects as much as possible. In his previous life, Feng Yongke was very envious of the industrial miracle created by the Red Soviet Union. Since it cannot be completely replicated, the planned economy is not useless.

In contrast to China's domestic boom, Japan's economy is showing signs of recession, and the government's latest adjustment suggests that domestic inflation has risen sharply due to higher taxes, and that the golden age of international business has disappeared with the end of the war in the West. The West, which was originally a dumping ground for commodities, is rapidly changing its role and becoming a supplier of industrial goods to the world. The world's industrial raw material market is instantly hot. This is nothing short of a disaster for a small country like Japan, which lacks resources. Although the Western industrial system was greatly damaged in the war. But after all, the foundation is still there, and like Britain itself, there was no war at all, and the change of functions was very rapid.

In addition to the destruction that wars bring to countries, they are not all bad. During the war, the development of the military industry of various countries reached a frenzied level, and the level of military science and technology showed a leapfrog development. During the war, these high technologies were sharp weapons for killing, but in peacetime, they were the driving force behind industrial reform.

In order to quickly restore domestic strength, these high-tech technologies were quickly integrated into private enterprises, so that Britain's industrial capacity did not decline but increased, and the quality far surpassed that of Japan. As a result, Japan's original industrial product market has also been squeezed by the superior products of Western powers. Britain is known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and it has a great influence all over the world, which provides a huge sales channel for British goods. Compared with the United Kingdom, Japan is unfortunately not at the same level at all.

As a big country in the Far East, China is a huge dumping ground for Western countries. However, after the establishment of the Chinese government, it took back the customs forcefully. Western industrial products entering China require huge tariffs. This made Western countries very unhappy, and the British foreign minister began negotiations with Chinese Foreign Minister Shi Yuewang on the matter. France also joined in the fun, after all, if China changes its tariff rate, it can't just give preferential treatment to the British! In the face of this situation, Shi Fatzi is unusually calm, China has already considered this issue when it withdraws tariffs, and before the development of domestic commerce, there must not be the slightest concession in tariffs, otherwise China's fragile national economy will be crushed by the large conglomerates flocked to the West. For countries to countries, it is not only real battles that are wars, but also economic aggression and plunder, and the impact is more profound. On the battlefield, a single shell kills a few people or a dozen people at most, but if a company with potential is crushed, it may lose the basis for survival by hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, which is simply worse than death.

In the face of the fierce representatives of Britain and France, Shi Fatzi was not in a hurry, gently diverted the topic, and then took the opportunity to propose to Britain and France the negotiation proposal of giving up the unequal rights and interests of the two countries in China and returning the concession to Hong Kong, China.

Sure enough, as soon as these conditions were put forward by China, Britain and France immediately got stuck. Especially the British, now that Hong Kong has developed a little bit, the British have a lot of power there, and they will not give up easily. In addition, the world war had just ended, and Britain, as the big boss of the victorious countries, was forced to abandon its colonies. As for the French, although their sons have little domestic interests in China, the British have not given up, and they will never give up. Moreover, the British and French foreign ministers have already sensed the hardline attitude of the Chinese and Cuban governments on the customs issue. In the minds of British and French diplomats, warships and soldiers are undoubtedly more effective than the negotiating table against such a China.

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